The course starts with the theory of fire and extinguishment, and thoroughly explains fire protection principles. Further, the course gives details related to the fire protection concepts including legal background and requirements with special focus on industrial fires and risk analysis. The course introduces basic principles and application of fire modeling, explains the phenomenon of a fire and gives an overview of the fire models and their hierarchy and discusses particular models, including numerical. The theoretical part is complemented with number of examples, including calculations, that illustrate the use of different fire models.

Objectives

This course aims to extend the knowledge about fire protection in industry based on the regulation and practice in EU, as well as to provide basic knowledge on fire modeling.

At the end of the course the students are expected to:

be familiar with the theory of fire

understand basics of fire prevention and protection measures in industry as well as of structural fire protection and fire protection concepts

Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Guidelines for Substantiating a Fire Model for a Given Application, Draft for Comments, September, 2009

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